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Issue: 113

November 11, 2004

Cover Story

Rule by Theft – Reconstructing the Crime

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Massive irregularities in the November 2 presidential vote count “will probably lead to congressional hearings in the Committee on the Judiciary,” predicts Rep. John Conyers, the committee’s ranking Democrat and longest sitting member of the Congressional Black Caucus. If tampering is found, said the Detroit lawmaker, “there will be prosecutions” under federal law. Watergate first…

Massive irregularities in the November 2 presidential vote count “will probably lead to congressional hearings in the Committee on the Judiciary,” predicts Rep. John Conyers, the…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Democrats Can’t Win

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

Democrats desperately need to know how to win. Instead we are hearing an endless repetition of incorrect conclusions about the election results. Democratic politicians and pundits either have no clue why they lost or they are unwilling to say that Emperor Kerry and the Democratic party potentates never had any clothes. The same politicians who…

Democrats desperately need to know how to win. Instead we are hearing an endless repetition of incorrect conclusions about the election results. Democratic politicians and pundits…

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Commentary

No Fools Allowed

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The greatest American moral values remain liberty and justice for all! Those are the moral values we had in mind when voting against the racist, war-mongering, corporate-pig George W. Bush. Feeling the Thunder The BC cover story of November 4, 2004, “Concede Nothing to Bush – Black Consensus Remains Intact” caused Okello Olok to become…

The greatest American moral values remain liberty and justice for all! Those are the moral values we had in mind when voting against the racist, war-mongering,…

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Commentary

No Real Peace Without Justice

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The following is an edited extract from the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize lecture delivered by Arundhati Roy at the Seymour Centre, Sydney, Australia, November 3. The full text is available at the Sydney Morning Herald. Sometimes there’s truth in old clichés. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be…

The following is an edited extract from the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize lecture delivered by Arundhati Roy at the Seymour Centre, Sydney, Australia, November 3. The…

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Commentary

RIGHTS: Calling Racism

By Its Name

This story was reported by the Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS). GENEVA – Non-governmental organizations representing African descendants are demanding that United Nations documents referring to discrimination make explicit reference to anti-Black racism. The refusal of states and institutions to specifically name anti-Black racism serves to perpetuate the exclusion, marginalization and oppression of people…

This story was reported by the Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS). GENEVA – Non-governmental organizations representing African descendants are demanding that United Nations documents referring…

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Commentary

Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia: Tip of the Golden Spear?

By Keith Harmon Snow

This article originally appeared in World War 3 Report. Gambella, Ethiopia – Talk privately to any Anuak people in the Ethiopian state of Gambella and it won’t be long before they speak about “the problem.” Others are terrified into silence. To Anuak and other indigenous minorities of southwestern Ethiopia, the government of Prime Minister Meles…

This article originally appeared in World War 3 Report. Gambella, Ethiopia – Talk privately to any Anuak people in the Ethiopian state of Gambella and it…

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